At first the use of velocipeds was considered "sporty", as it was used for promenades, trips and travels. In 1870 the first cycling clubs were born, whose purpose was to organize competitions, promote trips and defend the rights of cyclists in the face of administrative authorities. The clubs held deposits to guard the members' "machines", set up practice and learning tracks, and provided beginners with bicycles. 
It was rare for women to be accepted in sportive-cycling clubs, to see the women's cycling recognized on a competitive level, we must wait for the 1962 when the CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, decided to allow women to register as to avoid looking bad in front of other nations. As a result, the same year, the female group Faema Sarmato was born.
Cycle races sometimes occupied new spaces and often adapted existing spaces. The first dirt track with raised curves was built in Turin in 1890, in the Old Arms Square. In other places, they adapted the needs of bicycles to the places for horse racing. In Milan the favorite place for racing was the Trotter, the first concrete track and the first official velodrome was built in 1928.
Some of the historical places of the world wars such as hills, villages and finish lines, became familiar to people who had never seen them before because of cycling trips and races. More recently, the Giro d’Italia is considered as “un Paese di memorie”. The itinerary of the Giro showed Italians how Italy was constituted. Geography was reinvented through epic races.